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Sermon for The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 21 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, October 1, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Attitude, Episcopal, humility, hurricanes, Jesus, Jim Fenhagen, Love, make one another stronger, Mutual Ministry, peace, Philippians, Puerto Rico, sermon, Shalom, sharing, South Florida, Texas, We belong to one another
Sermon for The Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 17 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, September 3, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Apostle Paul, Charlottesville, Community, Episcopal, Facebook, Hate what is evil, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Katrina, Judy Garland, Love, Monmouth County, Movie: The Clock, New Orleans, New York City, Robert Walker, sermon, soul, Superstorm Sandy
Sermon for The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 14 Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, August 13, 2017. I close the sermon singing I Will Lift My Eyes by Bebo…
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Tags: 65th birthday, Apostle Peter, arrogance, Bebo Norman, Charlottesville VA, Episcopal, faith in God, growth and transformation, hate, I Will Lift My Eyes, In over my head, Jesus, Joseph coat of many colors, Joseph pit, Joseph slavery, Joseph son of Jacob, Love, Nazi, North Korea, Peter sinking, Peter walk on water, Peter's foolish energy, sermon
Sermon for The Feast of the Transfiguration (Transfiguration) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, August 6, 2017. I quoted from James Finlay’s post within Richard Rohr’s daily meditation which was adapted from…
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Tags: Center for Action and Contemplation, Elijah, Empty Tomb, Episcopal, James, James Finley, Jesus, Jesus as he really is, John, Love, Moses, Peter, Release the butterflies, Release the hounds, sermon, Transfiguration
Sermon for The First Sunday After Pentecost: Trinity Sunday (Trinity Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, June 11, 2017. I made reference to the image of dance in the sermon…
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Tags: baptism, born again, Creation story, dance, Episcopal, Fidget Spinner, holy spirit, Jesus, linear thinking, Love, mind-blowing, Nicodemus, prayer of the water of baptism, sermon, Three Persons, Trinity, Unity of Being
Sermon for The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday (Pentecost Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, June 4, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Baptismal Covenant, Deep Church, Education for Ministry, EfM, Episcopal, holy spirit, Jesus, language, Living Our Baptismal Covenant, Love, Pentecost, sermon, Tower of Babel, what church language do you speak
Sermon for The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension (7 Easter Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, May 28, 2017. IÂ mentioned this song by Todd Agnew in…
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Tags: anxiety, Armed Forces Day, Armistice Day, Ascension of Jesus, Cast all your anxiety on God, chapel prank, Decoration Day, Episcopal, God cares for you, Grace, Grace like rain, helium balloons, Jesus, Love, MASH, Memorial Day, Nashotah House, seminary, sermon, snarky, Todd Agnew, Veteran's Day
Sermon for The Second Sunday In Lent (2 Lent Year A) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – Sunday, March 12, 2017. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Angel Clarence, Bedford Falls, born again, Donna Reed, Episcopal, George Bailey, Grace, greed, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Jesus, Love, Mary, Nicodemus, Not Condemn, Old Granville House, sermon
The Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Proper 18 Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – September 4, 2016. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Best Years of Our Lives, Clay, embrace, Episcopal, golf, hands, Harold Russell, ho hands, Homer Parrish, Jeremiah, Jesus, labor, labor day, Love, movie Ghost, Potter, prosthetic, reaching forth our hands in love, recreate, sermon, tennis, total need for God
The Sermon – The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (The Holy Baptism of Madison Ann Cupido) (Proper 6 Year C) preached in my role as Priest-in-Charge Christ Episcopal Church Middletown, New Jersey – June 12, 2016. This sermon can viewed at
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Tags: Ahab, baptism, community parenting, Episcopal, good parenting, Hospitality, Jesus, Jezebel, Love, Nabob, sermon, Simon the PHarisee, world-view